On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Joe Brenner wrote:
>
> > I can obviously just use emacs on /etc/group, but I'd have
> > thought there was a better way of doing it these days.
>
> Sure there is - use vi on /etc/group. :>
> Seriously, if you're looking for an easy-to-use, graphical tool to do it,
> try kuser (part of the kdeadmin pacakge).
>
> > (And please, don't point me at linuxconf. Pushing alpha
> > quality stuff like linuxconf -- on newbies, no less! -- is
> > my biggest gripe about redhat.)
>
> So what should we be shipping instead?
>
> I haven't seen a better tool with the same functionality yet (yes, we are
> working on some things, but they're not yet ready (even less so than
> linuxconf)).
ouch. bad answer. it's not good form to be quite this snippy with
someone who's justifiably frustrated when he can't find the right
tool for the job.
as for linuxconf, the man is right -- it's too buggy to be considered
the first line of attack for real sys admin. in fact, a red hat
employee just last week told me how he never uses it because it
just doesn't work.
so what *should* you be shipping? i don't know. something that
works properly would be a good start. my impression is that people
are trying to add new features to linuxconf so quickly that the
existing features never get completely debugged. and this sounds
was too close to the microsoft model of software development for
my comfort level.
rday
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"This is Microsoft technical support. How may I misinform you?"
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